I rarely share them here, but I’m known to go off on wild goose chases every now and then, trying my best to track down useless historical facts and obscure items that, for whatever reason, I’ve become obsessed by. A few years back, as you may recall, I decided that I needed to know what […]
Tag Archives: Edith Massey
Looking for the Mark III
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Pop Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized Also tagged 1973, 1976, adult films, Alan Frybach, Andrea Marie Truden, Andrea True, Art 1 and 2, computer game, disco, Don Knotts, dongs, film history, Germany, Henry Ford Museum, Hot Channels, Illinois, International Hot Channels Symposium on Virtual Reality and Popular Culture, Johnny Mnemonic, Mark III, Mark's obsessions, More More More, North Washington Street, Orson Welles, Paul Williams, porn, pubic hair, R.G. Benjamin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Serial Mom, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Museum of American History, technology, The Hearts of Age, The Lawnmower Man, The Matrix, virtual reality, Virtuosity, VR, Welt am Draht, Woodstock, World on a Wire 13 Comments
Contemplating the life of Veronica Lake
It started out innocently enough… I was sitting here, waiting for the storm to begin, and listening to two of my favorite people, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest, discussing one of my favorite films, Sullivan’s Travels, and, then, one thing led to another, and I ended up going one YouTube link too far. Now I’m […]
Posted in Art and Culture Also tagged 1941, 1977, alcoholism, attractive people, beautiful women, Christopher Guest, Clarence Thomas, Flesh Feast, Hitler, Joel McCrea, maggots, mental illness, Preston Sturges, Veronica Lake 10 Comments
Meg Whitman endorses her opponent, Jerry Brown, for Governor of California
Isn’t that the most brilliant thing ever? And I’m not sure why, as she doesn’t look or sound anything like Edith Massey, but, after watching a few clips of Meg Whitman this evening, I found myself thinking of that great actress from Baltimore, and scouring the internet for film clips of her in action. I’m […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Other, Politics Also tagged Balitmore, California, Desperate Living, Ebay, Fells Point, Griffith Rutherford Harsh V, irony, Jerry Brown, John Waters, Meg Whitman, Queen Carlotta, things that are hilarious 12 Comments